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This is a fire resistive building having steel frame and brick panel walls; concrete roof on steel trusses. Outside brick stack 180 ft high, which is equipped with lighning rod. There are two 250 horse power and two 350 horse power boilers, coal…

This is a four story and basement brick building with slate roof on wood joist; floors are fire resistive, being concrete in hallways and wood on steel joist in dormitory rooms. Interior brick walls each side of hall and 4" gypsum partitions between…

This building is fire resistive except roof, walls are stone backed with 8" hallow tile; floors are concrete metal lumber construction; roof ordinary wood joist slate convered. Room partitions are 4" gypsum block. There is no basement; central steam…

This building was built on the foundations of the old boiler plant and is a one story and basement brick building with steel columns supporting roof, which is plank on steel beams. Floor is reinforced concrete. Tile partitions; central steam heat.…

This is a fire resistive building, three stories and basement with stone walls backed with 8" of brick; reinforced concrete floors and roof. Brick and tile partitions.

PDF of full insurance survey of the buildings of Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg, Virginia, prepared in 1931 by Charles Lunsford & Sons, Roanoke, Va.; Insurance Company of North America, Philadelphia, Pa.; and F. Wharton Baker, engineer.…

This is an envelope that list the address of Lt. Charles W. Knowles.

A typed poem titled "I Planted a Rose: A Tribute to the Hokie Nation" written by Charlie McCauley with an accompanying handwritten letter to Debbie Day. The handwritten letter has been cropped in this exhibit to protect certain personal information…

An advertising pamphlet for Charlie White-Moon's "Com-Cel-Sar," a cure-all medicine made of roots and herbs. The booklet contains advertisements and testimonials about the effectiveness of the product, as well as information about how it is…

A page from "The Cowboy and Com-Cel-Sar" displaying customer testimonials.

Page 15 of "The Cowboy and Com-Cel-Sar" featuring customer testimonials.

Pages 46 and 47 from "The Cowboy and Com-Cel-Sar" detailing the nature of the testimonials in the booklet.

Picture of a woman on a bridge

A picture of Charlotte Gale

A picture of Mr. Lattie Pratt and Ms. Nellie Roaher in front of a house near Crockitts Springs, VA

Nellie Roaher and Lattie Pratt in front of corn stalks

L. L. Gale, C. D. Gale, and Louise Gale pose on, in, and beside a wooden wheelbarrow

Louise Gale, Mr, Strauthers, and four children pose on a log over a creek

N&W Office, Roanoke with Dr. Galis Buggy in front of building. Black Church in rear of office.

Blanch Gale taken in her grandmothers costume.

Miss Mollie's horse, taken in Norfolk, VA

A parade of horses in Forepaugh Hills Circus, Roanoke VA

Taken at Brocketts, Mr. Garrett, Dr. Wiley, and third partie

Miss Davemport and Mr. Langham in Crocketts Springs,

People around a large shrub near Crocketts Springs

A clown on a one-horse chariot in Forepaugh and Bells Circus, Roanoke Va.

Four Women and a Child Walking Across a Stream

Scene from second story of the Monteceth Hotel, Norfolk, Va.

2 women and a man stand, another man sits, all in front of a wooden house

The Duchsciues at Crystal Springs, Roanoke, Va.

Grandma, Aunt Mattie, Lizzie, Francis and David, pose on a bench for a photograph in Salem, VA

Louise and Lottie Gale on the porch of a house in Roanoke, VA

Group photograph taken on the roof garden of the Montecllo Hotel; Dr. Wharton, Miss Nuisotn, Blanch Nuiston, Louise and Blanch Gale, Norfolk, Va.

Francis Kouier and David McClaung looking for bull frogs, Salem, Va.

Francis and David in wagon, Salem, Va.

David McClung standing on a bench facing to his right, Salem, Va

Group photograph of Aunt Mattie Buckie, Mother, Grandma, and Aunt Lizzie, taken in Salem

David McCelung, Grandma, Aunt Mattie and Mother in Rear, Salem, Va.

Scene of Crystal Springs, Roanoke, Virginia

Grandma, Aunt Mattie, Aunt Lizzie, Mother and Lottie, Salem, Va.

Mrs Barnett and Virginia, Roanoke, Va.

A group photograph taken at Lake Springs

A man and woman walk down a street

A picture of Louise Gale, Norfolk, Va.

A picture of Little Blanche Gale, Norfolk, Va.